Operation Cunning Fox

Operation Cunning Fox (13-15 April 2006) was a military operation carried out by the US Marine Corps during the Iraq War. They succeeded in clearing the mosque of Almaden of all Iraqi insurgents after some heavy resistance.

History
In April 2006, a squad of US Marine Corps troops patrolling from a nearby Forward Operating Base (FOB) reported that they were under heavy machine-gun fire from a mosque in Almaden, leading to more marines being dispatched to assist them in fighting off the Iraqi insurgents that ambushed them. A squad of Marine Corps troops arrived, and they assaulted the insurgents in the mosque. The insurgents were repeatedly mown down and blasted with grenades, and they were annihilated; the Americans neutralized the threat to their patrols, and they continued patrolling the streets.